MCQ Bank
Which one is NOT a type of schizophrenia?
- A) Differentiated type
- B) Paranoid type
- C) Catatonic type
- D) Disorganized type
Identify the year in which DSM was first published.
- A) 1917
- B) 1994
- C) 1998
- D) 2000
Which of the following refers to disorder in which anxiety is manifested in the form of panic attacks lasting from a few seconds to many hours?
- A) Eating disorder
- B) Mood disorder
- C) Panic disorder
- D) Schizophrenia
ICD was developed by which of the following?
- A) World Counseling Institute
- B) American Psychologist Association
- C) American Psychiatrist Association
- D) World Health Organization
Who proposed that a power similar to magnetism existed in humans?
- A) Franz Mesmer
- B) Plato
- C) Philippe pinel
- D) Galen
DSM-IV-TR contains definitions of more than how many mental disorders?
- A) 100
- B) 400
- C) 200
- D) 300
Conversion is a type of which of the following disorder?
- A) Anxiety
- B) Eating
- C) Somatoform
- D) Mood
Who among the following stated that gifted individuals tended to come from families, which had other, gifted individuals?
- A) Kurt Koffka
- B) James McKeen Cattell
- C) Francis Galton
- D) Charles Darwin
In history, special baths, diet, medication, music, - and pleasant environment were provided to the mental patients in which era?
- A) Middle ages
- B) Ancient times
- C) The islamic world
- D) Europe
The study of the agencies under social control that may improve or repair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally is:
- A) Eugenics
- B) Intelligence
- C) Determinism
- D) Heredity
Who was the first to develop formal measure of intelligence in 1905?
- A) Coles & Hass
- B) Stanford & Binet
- C) Sternberg & Russel
- D) Binet & Simon
All the followings are the symptoms of Stress EXCEPT:
- A) Twitching and trembling
- B) Sleeplessness
- C) Hallucinations
- D) Headaches
In terms of its causes and the factors affecting its course, bipolar disorder is most similar to which of the following?
- A) Panic disorder
- B) Schizophrenia
- C) Unipolar depression
- D) Substance use disorders
WAIS-R consists of two scales: Verbal and Performance. All of the followings are the subscales of Performance scale EXCEPT:
- A) Object assembly
- B) Similarities
- C) Digit symbol
- D) Picture completion
DSM is an abbreviation of which of the following?
- A) Diagnostic scale for mental disorders
- B) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
- C) Disease and symptoms of metal disorders
- D) Developmental and statistical manual
In which of the following age, the process of trephining for treating mental disorders was used to perform this procedure?
- A) Stone age
- B) Islamic age
- C) Middle age
- D) Ancient age
Which of the following period lasted from the fall of the Roman Empire in 5th century AD till the 15th century?
- A) The islamic world
- B) Ancient times
- C) Europe
- D) Middle ages
Identify a particular label that usually psychologists’ assign, when a child’s IQ is more then 140.
- A) Gifted
- B) Boarder line
- C) Superior
- D) Retarded
Tying shoelaces, riding a bicycle, swimming, and hitting a football are examples of ______________.
- A) Procedural memory
- B) Semantic memory
- C) Declarative memory
- D) Episodic memory
Who postulated that dreams have two levels or types of content: manifest content and latent content?
- A) Sigmund Freud
- B) Alfred Adler
- C) Karen Horney
- D) Carl Jung